Improved 

 DIANTHUS 



DIANTHUS 



This family of Pinks is unrivaled for 

 bi'illiancy and rich variety of color, as well 

 &s for their delicious perfume. They make showy beds, blooming 

 all summer. The Dianthus has long been a great garden favorite, 

 furnishing, as it does, an abundance of gay flowers until severe 

 winter weather comes. They are perfectly hardy, blooming as 

 well the second season as the first. As pot plants they are as 

 beautiful as the Carnations, while 

 their colors are more varied. 

 Crimson Belle Magnificent sin- 

 gle flowers of a dark red color. 

 Blooms are of large size, evenly 

 and finely laciniated. Pkt. .5c. 

 The Bride — Plant dwarf, only 

 about 4 inches high, compact and 

 bushy, profusely covered with 

 large white flowers about 3 inches 

 across. Petals finely cut. Pkt. 8c. 

 Pheasant's Eye — Fine single va- 

 riety, with fringed edged white 

 flowers, and a dark center. Pkt. 5c. 

 Laciniatus — Magnificent fringed 

 single sorts of great beauty. Pkt. 5c. 

 Heddewiggii, double mi.\ed — 

 Large - flowers, varying in color 

 from the richest crimson to most, 

 delicate rose. Pkt. 5c. 

 Chinensis, double mixed — Beau- 

 tiful clusters of daintj- double flow- 

 ers. Magnificent colors. Pkt. 4c. ( 

 SPECIAL OFFER^One packet/ 

 each of these 6 varieties, 25c. f 



DATURA, 



or Trumpet Flower. Large branching 

 (See Cut.) plants of great 



beauty and unique appearance, producing handsome double and 

 single flowers, trumpet shaped, white, blue, yellow and lilac, of 

 exquisite fragrance. The blooms expand during the night, last 

 during the day and then perish. They do finely from seed sown 

 in the open ground, blossoming the first season, and the roots can 



be kept overwinter, same as dahlias. 

 Pkt. 3c. 



DIAMOND 



FI OWPP ^^''6 exceedingly 

 1 TT beautiful annual with deli- 



(See Cut.) cate foliage and exquisite 



little white and violet blue flowers, sparkling with a glistening 



.-^--s^v^v-x sheen, hence 



■•>>l^liSS!i^«J\,«s their name. 



They bloom 

 within 30 days 

 after seed is 

 sown. Fine 

 for pot culture 

 in winter, mak- 

 ing the most 

 charming mat 

 of foliage and 

 flowers imagin- 

 able. In the 

 garden it will 

 grow and bloom 

 a 1 1 summer, 

 covering the 

 ground with a 

 perfect carpet 

 of beauty. 

 They bloom 

 all winter, re- 

 gardless of ice 

 and snow. An 

 exquisite thing 

 for a 1 1 pur- 

 poses. Try it. 

 Pkt. 10c. 



DATURA 

 CORNUCOPIA, 



or Horn of Plenty. 



(See Cut.) 



This new novelty of sterling merit 

 is of the easiest culture. Flowers 

 are trumpet shaped, measuring as 

 muc h as eight to ten inches in length 

 and from fiVe to seven inches across 

 the mouth, and form three distinct 

 flowers growing each within the 

 other; the throat and mouth of cor- 

 olla is of a most delicate French 

 white, beautifully contrasted and 

 marbeled with a royal purple on the 

 outside. They are produced in the 

 greatest abundance, a single plant 

 giving easily from 200 to 300 blooms during the season, followed by 

 a large thorny seed vessel, which adds to the beauty of the plant. 

 It can be cultivated as an isolated specimen, in masses, for center 

 of beds, or to 

 fill in where 

 there may be 

 barren spots. 

 Any way you ar- 

 range this wonder- 

 ful plant it pro- 

 duces a striking ef- 

 fect. This very 

 distint variety was 

 discovered in South 

 America by an or- 

 chid collector. It is 

 of robust habit, with 

 thick, brownish pur. 

 pie. shining stems ; 

 numerous symmet- 

 rical branches 

 spreading three or 

 four feet in every 

 direction, with the 

 most beautiful dark 

 green leaves. Do 

 not fail to include 

 in your order this 

 wonderful and 

 charming plant. 

 You will surely be 

 pleased. Pkt. 10c. 



DATUBA CORNCCOPIA. 



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